Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:52:45 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/xorg-libraries Makefile Message-ID: <20070522195245.GA18766@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <86hcq4zlrq.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200705220728.l4M7S2ZL053720@repoman.freebsd.org> <864pm5ntxl.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070522190716.GA77363@xor.obsecurity.org> <86hcq4zlrq.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:44:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: > > Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no> writes: > > > I don't understand why one would need to jump through hoops to install > > > X.org 7.2 on a clean system. > > There are a few reasons, mostly to do with old systems and getting the > > symlink. Note that in the "clean" case some of the instructions are > > NOPs. > > Please explain to me why, on a fresh FreeBSD install with no ports > installed and no /usr/local/ or /usr/X11R6/, I shouldn't be allowed to > "cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install clean". We are still working out the details on getting the symlink created automatically. Kris
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